An election this month in Pittsburgh and some of its suburbs is emerging as an early test of whether Israel's war with Hamas poses political threats to progressive Democrats in Congress who have criticized how the conflict has been handled.
President Biden's approval rating among voters over the Israel-Hamas war has further eroded as the Middle East conflict drags on, according to a poll released Sunday.
The long and occasionally quixotic relationship between Donald Trump and Lindsey Graham has again turned negative after the South Carolina senator criticized the former president for refusing to support a federal abortion ban.
President Joe Biden and his advisers bear significant responsibility for Iran’s massive Saturday attack on Israel, consisting of more than 300 drones and ballistic or cruise missiles. Before, during, and after Hamas’s barbaric Oct. 7 assault on the Jewish state, his administration refused to acknowledge Tehran’s “ring of fire” strategy, conducted through terrorists such as […]
An attorney for former President Trump brushed off the significance of his first criminal trial, which is scheduled to begin Monday, saying the case is merely a “six-week-long media extravaganza.” Trump’s criminal hush money trial will start jury selection on Monday in Manhattan, where prosecutors claim the former president illegally covered up payments made to...
The United States rebuked claims Sunday that Iran gave other countries in the region a warning that it would be launching a significant aerial attack against the country on Saturday. Iran did not warn other countries in the region that it would be attacking Israel on Saturday, a senior administration official said in a briefing...
Former CIA Director David Petraeus called the Iranian attack on Israel a “very big deal,” in an interview Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “Well, it is significant. It's a very big deal. And I think Israel will have to take some action in response,” Petraeus said. “I think it's very clear that the...
President Biden is hoping to avoid an all-out eruption in the Middle East after Iran sent hundreds of missiles and drones, nearly all of them intercepted, toward Israel in retaliation for an attack on an Iranian facility in Damascus that took out a top general. Biden now has to convince Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu...
House Republicans are facing mounting pressure to pass a Senate foreign aid bill, following the Iranian drone strikes targeting Israel over the weekend. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House coalitions are calling on Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to hold a vote on the Senate-passed national security supplemental...
Story at a glance The United States is facing a shortage of obstetrician-gynecologists that is only expected to worsen moving forward. There were about 50,800 OB-GYNs practicing in the U.S. in 2018, already too few to meet the country's rising demand. Roughly 3,000 fewer OB-GYNs will be practicing in the country by 2030, while the...